Jamming with Edward!

Jamming With Edward!
Studio album by Ry Cooder, Nicky Hopkins, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts
Released 7 January 1972
Recorded 23 April 1969, Olympic Studio, London, United Kingdom
Genre Rock
Length 36:05
Language English
Label Rolling Stones
Producer Glyn Johns
Ry Cooder chronology
Boomer's Story
(1972)
Jamming With Edward!
(1972)
Paradise and Lunch
(1974)
Nicky Hopkins chronology
Sweet Thursday Jamming With Edward!
(1972)
The Tin Man Was a Dreamer
(1973)
The Rolling Stones chronology
Sticky Fingers
(1971)
Jamming With Edward!
(1972)
Exile on Main St.
(1972)

Jamming With Edward! is an album recorded by three members (Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, and Bill Wyman) of The Rolling Stones with Nicky Hopkins and Ry Cooder at London's Olympic Studio during the Let It Bleed sessions of 1969 and released on Rolling Stones Records in 1972. The album is a series of loose jams the band performed while waiting for Keith Richards to show up to the studio. On the strength of the band's association with the album, Jamming With Edward! reached #33 on the US charts,[1] although it failed to reach the UK listings.

The eponymous Edward was pianist Nicky Hopkins, in reference to Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder, Hopkins' star turn on Quicksilver Messenger Service's album Shady Grove. Hopkins also contributed the cover art.

The liner notes were written by Mark Paytress and Mick Jagger. Jamming With Edward! was remastered and reissued by Virgin Records in 1994.

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Track listing

All songs written and composed by Ry Cooder, Nicky Hopkins and Charlie Watts, except where noted. 

Side one
No. Title Length
1. "The Boudoir Stomp"   5:13
2. "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James/Mel London (Original version: Tampa Red, 1941)) 5:12
3. "Edward's Thrump Up"   8:11
Side two
No. Title Length
4. "Blow with Ry"   11:05
5. "Interlude a la El Hopo - Includes: "The Loveliest Night of the Year" (Webster, Ross)"   2:04
7. "Highland Fling"   4:20

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Sales chart performance

Year Chart Position
1972 Billboard Pop Albums 33

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